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Newly restored stone steps leading up into the Canoe Hill Cemetery. Credit: Michael Dinan Perched on a hill off of the east side of Laurel not far from the intersection of Canoe Hill Road, the final resting place of 200-plus New Canaanites—including the town’s (and possibly Connecticut’s) last living slave—had fallen into disrepair over the years. With little dedicated parking and difficult to access even by foot, given a steep hill and crumbling stone staircase, the .69-acre cemetery g...

New Canaan supporters of electric vehicles amp up charger buzz Grace Duffield FacebookTwitterEmail New Canaan has one municipal charger for electric vehicles located in Morse Court parking lot. Soon the town may be getting more installed.  Picture was taken April 2021.Grace Duffield / Hearst Connecticut Media New Canaan will become a destination location for drivers of electric cars, if EV advocates who presented to the Tourism and Economic Development Advisory Committee have their way. Electr...

Ice rink coming to New Canaans Waveny Park Grace Duffield FacebookTwitterEmail The skating rink equipment was delivered to Waveny Park in New Canaan on Jan. 4.Grace Duffield Hearst Connecticut Media / NEW CANAAN — The New Canaan Parks and Recreation Commission voted on Wednesday in favor of putting the temporary rink on a parking lot in 300-acre Waveny Park at 677 South Ave. Commissioner Jake Granito made the motion after he voiced reasons why the parking lot at Waveny is the best site after ...

Draft aerial schematic of the sidewalk bump-out proposal for Elm Street. Sidewalks would be bumped out in the red-hashed areas. Five parallel parking spaces would be lost on the north side of Elm Street between South Avenue and the Playhouse crosswalk, while five total spaces would be gained on the south side of Elm—three below the same crosswalk (in front of the Bank of America building) and two more just east of the intersection of South Avenue and Elm Street. Image courtesy of the New Cana...

Committee mulls best location for New Canaan skating rink Grace Duffield FacebookTwitterEmail Equipment for a skating rink has been delivered in New Canaan and is being stored in this unit behind the Carriage Barn.Grace Duffield Hearst Connecticut Media The ice skating rink equipment that sits in a trailer in Waveny Park behind the Carriage Barn may already be located close to its temporary home. A committee responsible for locating the new ice rink is expected to report to the Parks and Recrea...

Rendering of the planned pickleball courts at Mead Park. Specs by Hinding Tennis LLC Town officials on Tuesday approved about $200,000 in contracts for the widely anticipated pickleball court installation project at Mead Park. The five pickleball courts that will replace the hard-surface all-season public tennis court at Mead should be ready for a late-June or early-July opening, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann.  The project includes replacement of a tennis backboard adjacent to ...

The town is planning to install sidewalks on both sides of Gower Road as it passes South School. Credit: Michael Dinan Town officials on Tuesday approved an approximately $20,000 contract for the design of new sidewalks that will make New Canaan’s most walkable elementary school even more walkable. As it is, sidewalks that run from both ends and on each side of Gower Road near South School terminate just at the edge of school property.  The existing sidewalks on Gower “actually stretch fro...

Town officials say they’ve hired a traffic engineer to review a plan to bump out sidewalks on Elm Street. Michael Galante, director of traffic at Norwalk-based Hardesty & Hanover LLC, has been hired “to come out and take a look at Elm Street, review a bump-out plan for us, a sidewalk bump-out plan,” according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. “He is going to be doing a little bit of traffic study and a little bit of speed study on Elm Street, the main business section,” Mann told m...

With snow from winter storms melted away in downtown New Canaan and warmer weather expected, public works officials this week re-installed barriers downtown that will allow for restaurants to expand their outdoor dining areas. Public Works Director Tiger Mann said Monday that the “barricades are back out, so the restaurants will be able to expand out.” “It’s going to be absolutely beautiful for this week, 60 degrees by Thursday, so we are hoping there will be no snow,” Mann said durin...

Route 123 will be closed in both directions next month for about three weeks, officials say. Though town officials had asked that the work—replacing a “box culvert” or bridge near the New Canaan Field Club—be put off until next summer, the Connecticut Department of Transportation is moving forward with the work early next month, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. “We asked for that to be changed to the summer, and while we had already gotten a delay from them back in Novem...